writing and media
My Substack archives contain only a subset of my published work. Here’s a reverse chronological sort of the non-Substack writing. Favorites in bold.
reporting + essays + papers
“Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush,” SF Standard, reported feature, 2025
“DeepSeek, unstacked,” Substack Reads, explainer/roundup, 2025
“Silicon Valley’s new Red Scare,” Business Insider, reported feature, 2025
“Public AI,” Mozilla Foundation, white paper, 2024
“Making Software with a Soul,” Reboot, podcast, 2024
“Does Tech Criticism Still Matter?,” Reboot, essay, 2023
“Building Creator-Centered Platforms,” Kernel Magazine, interview, 2022
“Take Back the Future!,” Kernel Magazine, essay, 2021
“A National AI for Good Initiative,” Day One Project, policy memo, 2020
“Communicative friction,” UX Collective, essay, 2020
“How would Jane Jacobs design a social media platform?,” essay, 2020
invited talks + interviews
Asterisk, “Does Abundance Start At Home?” edited conversation, 2025
Readwise, “Substack, AI, and the Future of Writing,” podcast, 2025
Substack Post, “Substack on Film: Jasmine Sun,” short film, 2025
NPR Marketplace, “More Stanford grads are finding jobs and purpose in defense tech,” podcast, 2025
Dain Fitzgerald, “Shifting politics of the tech elite,” podcast, 2025
Untangled, “The Potential of Public AI,” podcast, 2024
Why Is This Interesting?, “The Monday Media Diet with Jasmine Sun,” written interview, 2024
Embedded, “My Internet: Jasmine Sun,” written interview, 2024
The Point, “Working in Tech,” written interview, 2023
The Next Web, “The Tech We Want,” conference panel, 2023
Amnesty Int’l & Fight for the Future, “Human Rights & web3,” panel, 2022
Logic Magazine, “Intergenerational Struggle Session,” edited conversation, 2022
TCIA Data 4 Public Good, “The Emergence of Public Interest Technology,” conference panel, 2022
The Other Side, “Utopias + Value Pluralism,” podcast, 2021
Logic Magazine, “Coming of Age in Silicon Valley,” edited conversation, 2021
This Must Be The Place, “Civic Infrastructure and Online Communities,” podcast, 2020
other media projects
Reboot and Kernel Magazine, cofounder/director, 2020—present
“A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace,” coauthor, 2021
Rebuilding Government, podcast host, 2019